I had my baby in his pram and I was trying to get up the stairs in search of the front office. 

There was a kind man who quickly came to help and lifted the pram both up the stairs and then down again when I needed it. 

This is more than what many other people may have done. 

This fellow did a kind act that day for me and I would like to thank him for it.

Naomi Stucken,

Waratah st Cowra

The Editor, 

The recently concluded G20 Summit held in Brisbane was possibly useful in more ways than one, to the Federal Government. 

Despite the public show of remonstration of the Russian President, it appears Valdimir Putin may have given our Prime Minister and Minster for Communications tips on how to deal with sections of the media whose behaviour doesn’t suit our Coalition’s policy plans. 

We now see in action the start of a systematic destruction of the ABC and possible curtailment of SBS. 

Yours sincerely,

Bill Barwood

Icely Street

Canowindra 2804

I have been researching the Byrne family geneology from Morongla Creek NSW. 

John Joseph Byrne married a local widow, Mrs Elizabeth Bourke and as far I can ascertain, John J adopted the three boys John, Willie and Wally. 

John James B 1892-KIA 14/04/1918 France William Alan 1894-KIA 25/07/1916 France Walter Bernard 1897-? R.A.N John Josephs.

A headstone at Morongla Creek Cemetery states the three boys died in the service of their country. 

I would like more family information, can anyone help? 

Regards

Mark Hillier Sydney NSW. 

Mail P O Box 333 Hoxton Park NSW, email: mark@seerr.com

Dear Editor,

Please allow me to question a number of the answers from Bill West in your Q & A in Cowra Guardian (November 21). 

It is quite clear to me that Council is attempting to gridlock Kendal Street in order to put pressure on the Government to fund a bypass.

Mayor Bill West states that you cannot have five, fifty, or five hundred people say they don’t like something and so you won’t do it.

Well I can assure you Mr West that if this was an election and at public meetings well over 80 per cent of the people were against your proposal, and then with the presented petition with over 90% of the signatures against the proposed upgrade, I can assure you that the defeat of the previous government would pail in insignificance compared to what your defeat would be. 

With regard to parking could you please explain how you intend to stretch out the length of Macquarie and Brisbane Streets in order to create additional parking.

Also please explain to the elderly members of the community how you think they will manage to walk from the Council Car Park all the way down the street to shop then carry their shopping all the way back.

Again I am sure you will find not even the younger generation will walk that far in order to shop. 

Please correct me if I am wrong but at all meetings and discussions I have had re the time factor for what I believe is the floored upgrade of Kendal Street, I am sure that the time quoted has been three months.

I am in receipt of correspondence from Roads and Maritime Services received by my on Friday, November 28, 2014 giving a starting date of January 19, 2015 with work hours being 6am to 6pm Monday to Saturdaya nd 9am to 5pm Sunday with the work to be completed over a four month period weather permitting.

I am quite sure that like myself the Cowra community would be extremely pleased if they were told exactly what the time frame is.

Will it be three months or four months?As with previous questions of mine that remain unanswered I would ask that you treat the community with the respect that they deserve and give us a public answer.

To the Mayor of Cowra

Mr. Bill West

Dear Sir,

I would draw your attention to my correspondences of October 21st when you were asked to make public the following.

You appear to claim in response to the presented petition that over 400 submissions were received in favour of the Kendal Street flawed upgrade along with the support of the Cowra Business Chamber.

You were asked to release to the Cowra Community the result’s of the over 400 submissions (which I am sure will support the feeling’s of the majority of the broader Cowra community ) who do not want the Kendal Street upgrade to proceed in the present form.

Could you please tell us just why you refuse to release the above information to the community which they are entitled receive.

Or are you and your colleges afraid this information will again confirm that the majority of the Cowra Community reject the Kendal Street upgrade in the present form. (your silence is defining) .

I am enclosing a reply from The Hon. Duncan Gay MLC Minister for Roads & Freight.

Please take particular notice of the third paragraph in which he clearly states that Roads and Maritime Services say that the centre median Strip is preferred by Cowra Shire Council based on results of consultation with the community and that the working party was represented by among others, bus Operators. You apparently think that there is only one bus operator in Cowra as we were never consulted and our family are the longest serving bus operators in Cowra having been in the business for over 50 years (my wife and I for over 40 years ) and we have never been consulted. 

I would like to point out that at the public meeting at the Primary School (at which over 80% of those in attendance objected to the upgrade in the present form).

And at that meeting the Roads and Maritime Services representative stated that the centre median strip was not set in concrete and was still up for negotiation and as the above paragraph in Duncan Gay’s reply I believe indicates this is purely Council’s decision.

At no stage, I believe, in Duncan Gay’s reply does he indicate that the centre median strip is the choice of the Roads and Maritime Services but clearly indicates that it is Council’s preferred option which in my opinion is totally against what the over whelming majority of the community want. 

It is time that you and those pushing this, in my opinion, flawed upgrade and, what I believe, will be the destruction of the CBD, stopped treating the Cowra community with  as you have been in regard to the Kendal Street upgrade and started listening to the majority of the community that elected you to represent their wishes.

Cec Peterson, 

Camp Rd Cowra.